A new animated video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab takes you on a virtual flyover of Ceres, showcasing some of its most exciting geologic features, such as the Occator crater and the Ahuna Mons mountain. Produced by members of the team that operated Dawn's Framing Camera, the video uses high-altitude mapping images taken by the spacecraft to accurately represent the terrain on Ceres. The color of the surface has been enhanced with a blue hue to show where younger material—such as geologic flows, pits, and cracks—is thought to be.

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The raw images used to make this video simulation were taken while Dawn repeatedly circled Ceres at an altitude of about 900 miles from August to October 2015. Dawn is still orbiting Ceres today, and will continue to do so for the remainder of its lifetime.